Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9780822964346
Pub Date: 11 Oct 2016
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Description:
In his third poetry collection, Primer, Aaron Smith grapples with the ugly realities of the private self, in which desire feels more like a trap than fulfillment. What is the face we prepare in our public lives to distract others from our private grief? Smith's poetry explores that inexplicable tension between what we say and how we actually feel, exposing the complications of intimacy and the limitations of language to bridge those distances between friends, family members, and lovers.